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...four delegates met on Dec. 12, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City; L. E. Sexton, '84, and G. S. Mumford, '87, representing Harvard; G. A. Adee, '67, and Alfred Cowles, '86, representing Yale...
...that city was now near. Some anxiety was felt as to modes of conveyance to the hotel. This, however, were set at rest by the presence of three tally-ho coaches, by which name were dignified three ordinary hotel coaches; but then one could sit on top and nearly tumble off, so what more could be wanted? At any rate, from this height of vantage the town was taken by storm; passing teams were urged to a race, and that, too, while climbing a hill; the hotel was, however, soon reached, and the prospective contest prevented. There ensued a scene...
...serenade was interrupted by the appearance of that gentleman himself, who hospitably threw open his doors and invited all to come in. After a short entertainment of the societies in his house, the Mayor was bid "good-night," and with twenty-seven cheers the party returned to the hotel. For an account of the manner of this return, the meeting, disarming, restoration and pacification of the belligerant policeman; the storming of the ball-room; the multifarious deeds at the hotel, and the many humorous events of the night, it can only be said with the circus posters, "See small bills...
...There are earnest attempts among many of the students to support themselves honestly while studying, some even in Vienna, working as night street-sweepers. Nothing derogatory can be said of this class, for there is only a matter of choice between street-sweeping and waiting on hotel tables. Still, on the other hand there is a great swarm of men imbued with false ideas of their own powers, driven on by vanity, and often by parental pride, who come to the universities expecting an easy living and final renown in some one of the professions...
...with that of the whole state. In 1848 it was a little village of four or five hundred inhabitants. In five years it became a city of 25,000 population. Tents were not comfortable, and rude houses of canvas and pine were rapidly built. The Parker House, the leading hotel, a frame building, brought over $60,000 per year rent. The annual rental of this city of rags was said to be $12,000,000. The population was then...